Conservative Journalist Denies Racial Slur Allegation | EUROtoday

A conservative journalist is denying that he nearly used a racial slur to check with Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, whereas being interviewed by Megyn Kelly.

It occurred Monday when Kelly was interviewing National Review editor Rich Lowry concerning the bomb threats and different threats of violence which have plagued the small metropolis since former President Donald Trump and his working mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have unfold a baseless smear that Haitian immigrants there have been consuming neighbors’ pets.

Vance advised CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that he felt the necessity to “create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people.”

Lowry didn’t appear perturbed by the made-up story, evaluating it to “alternative facts,” a time period coined by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to defend his lies concerning the crowd measurement at his 2017 inauguration. In truth, Lowry went as far as to say that Vance had introduced “other facts to bear in the debate that are being ignored.”

Lowry then appeared amused that journalists equivalent to Bash have been spending their time attempting to confirm the story.

“I loved ― I think it was Dana Bash in that interview ― where she says police have gone through 11 months of recordings of calls,” he mentioned.

“And they’ve only found two Springfield residents calling to complain about Haitian mig… migrants taking geese from ponds. Only two calls!”

Many folks on X, previously Twitter, have been satisfied they heard Lowry nearly say the N-word earlier than correcting himself.

Lowry allegedly makes the comment across the 42-second mark of the video.

Although many individuals have been satisfied that Lowry began to say the racial slur, he obtained assist from Fox News and National Review contributor Andy McCarthy.

McCarthy defended Lowry, saying, he “obviously got crossed up between ‘immigrants’ (short i) and migrants (long i) ― started mispronouncing “migrants” with brief i” however “instantly corrected himself with no embarrassment because it was patently a mispronunciation.”

Although Lowry didn’t reply to HuffPost’s request for a remark, he did touch upon McCarthy’s protection, saying, “Yep, this is exactly what happened—I began to mispronounce the word ‘migrants’ and caught myself halfway through.”

Kelly additionally chimed in, saying that the accusations towards Lowry have been “disgusting and obviously leveled by someone” who doesn’t know him.

However, many individuals on X weren’t satisfied by Lowry’s clarification for the bizarre phrase slip.